1 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie Smith. I don't also to Stephane 2 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: never told you production of Ihart Radio. Okay, so I 3 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: guess quick trigger warning. It's probably obvious from the title 4 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: what we're talking about abortion and um the law in 5 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: Texas specifically, and a lot of the politics around abortion 6 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: that are going on here in the United States right now. 7 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 1: Totally hear you if you're like not today, not today. 8 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: And since this is an ongoing news story, we wanted 9 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: to time stamped as we're recording and it is September one. 10 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: I did most of the research came from like a 11 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: week ago. I did check make sure nothing was like 12 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: drastically different, but just to put that out there. And 13 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: we have done quite a few episodes on abortion and 14 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: laws around abortion and even international laws around abortion, if 15 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: you want to go check those out. We've quite a 16 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: few of them under our at this point. We know 17 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: these are constantly changing, as in fact, Mexico had some 18 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: good news that happened in regarding abortion laws as well. 19 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 1: So if you're out there internationally and things are happening, 20 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,839 Speaker 1: we always love updates, so let us know please, But yes, 21 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: we are going to talk a little bit about what 22 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 1: is happening in Texas or what has happened in Texas. 23 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: And yeah, we're a little late, as this is kind 24 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: of old news, but it's still concerning news, so obviously 25 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: we're going to keep talking about it. As of September one, 26 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: two thousand twenty one, the Texas legislature enacted a law 27 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: originally passed in May, prohibiting abortion after six weeks in 28 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: the state, long before many women know they are pregnant. 29 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: H Yeah, and this is again one of those things. 30 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: It's not just Texas, it's everywhere. I know that Georgia 31 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: has also tried to pass that law. I don't think 32 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: it's been addressed yet, and there's several states who are 33 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: lying in wait essentially for something like this. This essentially 34 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: undoes the protections offered by Row v. Wade in Texas, 35 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,679 Speaker 1: legalizing abortion up to twenty two to twenty four weeks, 36 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: and experts estimate this will eliminate eighty five of the 37 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: legal abortions previously happening in the state. By the way, 38 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: once again, there's not many places that allow for this 39 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 1: just straightforward abortions. There are a lot of like hoops 40 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,959 Speaker 1: you have to go through in order to even get there, um, 41 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: including the fact, one of the things that we've talked 42 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: about many places you can't even go before like four 43 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: or five weeks of determining your practacy, so you have 44 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: like a small window to get there. So just to 45 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: put that out there, so it does away with and 46 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: limits people who do use or have used abortion in 47 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: court and protection in their rights. So that is something 48 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: to know, and it puts the ones's on them to 49 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: prove the legality of abortion. Yeah. Despite an emergency request 50 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: to stop the law from going into effect, the Supreme 51 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: Court allowed the law to go forward based on some 52 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: extremely shaky technicalities and it was a lot of we're 53 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: not going to completely address it type of off hands 54 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: label type of thing. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's extremely 55 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:14,959 Speaker 1: concerning and disheartening and reading stories from both like providers 56 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: and people in Texas who might want an abortion or 57 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: need an abortion saying like, you know, I'll comply that 58 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: this is really scary, and already people are making moves 59 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: to to comply so fast. Not only that the law 60 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: allows for private citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone 61 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: that in any way helps someone get an abortion, UM drivers, 62 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: people who provide financial assistance, insurance companies, anyone, even someone 63 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: they have no connection to, which is a big deal. 64 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: That's different. Most times in the law, you have to 65 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: know the person you're suing, or have some kind of 66 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: connection to them, or are the entity. In this case, 67 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: you do not for ten dollars, they can sue them 68 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: for plus attorney's fees and even more. I've read the 69 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: people suing don't even have to be Texans, and they 70 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: have four years to decide to sue and consue hundreds 71 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: of people if they want, Like one person could do 72 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: this hundreds of times should they desire. And if one 73 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: case sales, that doesn't mean that others won't, which is 74 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 1: sort of throwing precedent out the window. Usually like you 75 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: can point to well, see this case and what happened 76 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: to there, They're they're not going along with that, and 77 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: for this law, experts speculate this could lead to abortion 78 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: bounty hunters and vigilanteism. An anti abortion group has already 79 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,679 Speaker 1: hosted a website where anyone can report people they suspect 80 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: being involved with an abortion, which has of course been 81 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: flooded with things like Shrek poor and claims of Marvel 82 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: characters seeking abortions. But still that is that is very scary, right, 83 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: and just a reminder if you remember what happened in 84 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: Alabama in which they executed a woman who got into 85 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,799 Speaker 1: a fight, got shot, lost the baby, and they actually 86 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: prosecuted her for illegally terminating a pregnancy, which was not 87 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: even the case at all, and it actually worked for 88 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: a minute until it got like national headlines. And that's 89 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: why stuff like this is so scary. We know we're 90 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 1: preaching to the choir, but this is what the conversation is. 91 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: And we also have talked about civil suits before as 92 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: a good thing when we talked about rape and sexual 93 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: assault survivors being able to get some type of compensation 94 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,239 Speaker 1: or justice. This goes to a whole different, ugly level, 95 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: but it comes to the same merit that it doesn't 96 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: hit the same standards as violating law or serving time, 97 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: So this is way easier to prosecute people. But that 98 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: is really really upsetting, very scary. And by the way, 99 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: that ten thousand dollars comes from the person who was 100 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: accused of helping or getting an abortion right f y I. 101 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: But using civil lawsuits as a way to stop or 102 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: slow the rate of abortion days back to the nineteen 103 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: nineties when prize. A Texas pastor created Spies for Life, 104 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 1: a program that put out pamphlets instructing people how to 105 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: use the legal system to go after abortion clinics and providers. 106 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: The author of the law said it was modeled after 107 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: a similar local law in Texas County. But the law 108 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: is mostly a political statement, and we know there's plenty 109 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: of those out there. Um, and there were no abortion 110 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: clinics in the county, which again we also need to 111 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: talk about the fact that Texas, uh much like kind 112 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: of like Georgia, is very limited, and how many abortion 113 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: clinics there is in the first place. They shut them 114 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: around pretty quickly, very fast. And also, yeah, this is 115 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: another tactic that we've seen from abusive partners who are 116 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: trying to control their partners through pregnancy or through a 117 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: child too. That's been a whole thing. Yeah. People have 118 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: also pointed out while is horrific that this slaw bands 119 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: abortion even in the case of raper incests, these conversations 120 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: often imply that abortion is always a bad thing, or 121 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: always the result of something bad that's used in the 122 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: worst case scenario, and that we need to change how 123 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: we talk about that, how we think about that, like 124 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: that that is terrible that it bans that, but also 125 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: like abortion is not always rightly okay in those instances, right, yeah, 126 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: that's the big things that I know. There were several 127 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: tweets where people are like, hey, can we stop this 128 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: whole like morality in abortion conversation, And it is and 129 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: it is something that it is so ingrained with us, 130 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: and I've talked about it before, Like it's even for me, 131 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: who was like changed my mind drastically, so it's coming 132 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: out of my conservative childhood to this to understanding, oh yeah, 133 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: this is bad. Still has a hard time not kind 134 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: of moralizing it and wanted to that. But again for 135 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: me talking to my family because when I talked to 136 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: my mother, I think I've talked about it, but this 137 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: before we had a big blowout, And this is one 138 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: of the things that I'm other brought up. Also the 139 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: type of I'm adopted and that I should be, of 140 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: all people, the most grateful that I wasn't aborted. Whole 141 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: other law of conversation, but like that type of conversation 142 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: is unfortunately what we have to use because they really 143 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: think this is a moral stands that they truly, truly 144 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: have believed it for so long, I might say, so 145 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: long as in their childhood, because to be fair, for 146 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: a long time, abortion wasn't a big issue until Yeah, 147 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: so like sixty seventies that they kind of came up 148 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 1: as an issue, but a whole other conversation. But yeah, 149 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: we just need to let that point go, just like 150 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 1: this is about autonomy and our body. And now this 151 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: law has a huge national implications as we talked about earlier, 152 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 1: and not just when it comes to abortion. A Missouri 153 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: law just passed has the same vigilante mechanism. There are 154 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: voting restriction laws that function or could function similarly to 155 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: the Texas law. Has also caused confusion and fear for 156 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 1: Texans who might be seeking an aborre. The bill is 157 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: written specifically to get around Rope versus Wade and ultimately 158 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: go on to challenge it. And yeah, that's kind of 159 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: that bigger conversation that we were gonna need to come 160 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: back to. And again, why everybody is very upset about 161 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:17,319 Speaker 1: the current last two Supreme Court justices appointed because they 162 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: knew this is one of the major things, major contentions 163 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: that we're going to come up and what they were 164 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: trying to do, especially when it comes to Amy Cow 165 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: and Barrett, who has a pretty staunch pro birth stance. 166 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: So and yeah, and there are a lot of impending 167 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: lawsuits against it, including from the U. S. Department of Justice, 168 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: which I think we need to come back to look 169 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: at because what they are doing is a weird roundabout. 170 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: To get this stopped, I guess try what you can. 171 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: Um And at the same time, other states are trying 172 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 1: something similar. Some companies like Salesforce have offered to move 173 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: employees out of state if they desired, without further details. 174 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: Lift an Uber claimed they will pay for any driver's 175 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: sued under the law. And at the same time, others 176 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: have pointed out that while many big companies have taken 177 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: public stances for voting rights, that it gets racism and homophobia, 178 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: so they may just be superficial. A lot of these 179 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: same companies haven't said anything about this, and I'm not 180 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: gonna lie. It could be also our parent company who 181 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: might be a part of that conversation. Oh yeah, we 182 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: talked about this in kind of the big idea behind 183 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: this law is like, yeah, places like Georgia do have 184 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: in Mississippi, like we have these laws on the books 185 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: that were ready, Like if row View aid gets overturned, 186 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: then they go immediately to be enacted. So that's part 187 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: of the really scary thing is that a lot of 188 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: states have done something similar to what Texas has done 189 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: and are just waiting to see what happens and how 190 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 1: they can get around it or how they can overturn 191 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 1: versus wade ultimately. And yeah, abortion can already be and 192 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: often is a trying and emotional experience, and now Texans 193 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: and potentially people across the country you have to worry 194 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: about fine, financial penalty and judgment sanctioned on a legal level, 195 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: as well as potentially traveling out of state. One estimate 196 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: suggests that for the average Texan legal abortions just went 197 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: from on average about twelve miles away to two hundred 198 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: and forty eight miles away, which is a huge burden 199 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 1: and not an option for everyone. An abortion, you know, 200 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: isn't free first place, everybody generally um and this is 201 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: an impact that will especially be felt by women of color. 202 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: Oh So, if you have questions, there are resources online, 203 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: including Planned Parents. They have a they have a site. 204 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: Their site has an f a Q about the law 205 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: on what it means. There are places to donate and 206 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: ways to help online as well, So go check those out. 207 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,479 Speaker 1: Um and I'm sure we'll be talking about this more 208 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 1: in the future and definitely keeping a close eye on it, 209 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: right And just as a reminder, there are still services 210 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: out there. It has not completely upended everything. I don't 211 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: think it has completely gone into effect as well, so 212 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: that is still an option for those who need it. 213 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: And yeah, and this is absolutely when I say this, 214 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,319 Speaker 1: I'm not saying this without any kind of sarcasm, but 215 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,680 Speaker 1: this is an attack on women. This isn't an attack 216 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: on people with uresses and being able to uh I guess, 217 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: being able to reproduce, or whether or not we can reproduce. 218 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: This is absolutely coming after women, point blank. And just 219 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: because other women are pro birthers and would say they're 220 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:30,199 Speaker 1: in favor of this abortion band does not mean it's 221 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: still not an attack on women. And unfortunately it is 222 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: the women who are fighting the hardest and being the loudest, 223 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 1: but it's also the women who are most dismissed and 224 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: most likely prosecuted, persecuted as well as a completely ignored 225 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: and owned obviously, And when it comes down to it, yeah, 226 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: rich people will continue to have abortions no matter the 227 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: state that's always how it's been, that's always how it 228 00:12:55,800 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: will be. Who has access rich people in the story, um, 229 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 1: who doesn't, those who are disenfranchised and already struggling, and 230 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 1: those who are completely ignored and completely silenced because they 231 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: don't even have the option to fight right now. All 232 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:14,679 Speaker 1: they can do is maintain. So that's what we are 233 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 1: most concerned about, obviously, outside of just yeah, it's our 234 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: rights in our laws. But when it comes down to it, 235 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: um and and I know we have access because we 236 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: have a little money more than most, So that's a 237 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: whole different conversation and it makes us very angry, and 238 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: we need to be we need to be very very 239 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 1: on alert. Yeah, and continue to spread truth instead of 240 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: the stupid misinformation that continues to plague our nations. Okay, 241 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: I'm done, okay, um yeah, yeah, No, it's a lot, 242 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: it's a lot. That was It's been a rough I mean, 243 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: it's so silly to say, because it's been a rough 244 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: like years, mons years, years and years, but it has 245 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 1: been a really rough couple of weeks for sure. But 246 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 1: that being said, we would really love to hear from 247 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: any listeners about what's going on in your neck of 248 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: the woods around this issue, or anything at all, anything 249 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: we should be talking about, any people or resources we 250 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 1: should shout out. Please let us know. 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